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DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.
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Cranialcreditsyndrome
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: k-ray-nee-'l-k-red-it-sin-dro-m
Sentence: He felt a wave of cranialcreditsyndrome come upon him as he looked at the credit card bill from last month.
Etymology: From the word cranial meaning of the skull from the medieval latin root cranium which was from the greek kranium meaning skull which was related to the word kara meaning head
Migrastic
Created by: Paloma
Pronunciation: my-GRAS-tic
Sentence: My online shopping habit has created a migrastic-inducing monthy ritual of opening my credit-card bills.
Etymology: migraine + plastic
Enderythralgia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɛndəɹɪˈθɹældʒiə/
Sentence: Enderythralgia is quite common and most medical experts consider it a rational response, and thus not a true pathology. Endomelanalgia (pain caused by _not_ being in the red) is a much rarer and more serious condition.
Etymology: end- (in) + erythr- (red) + -algia (pain) "pain caused by being in the red"
Billiousness
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bill eee us ness
Sentence: Her recent bout of plastic splurgery left her with billiousness and a strange empty feeling in her purse.
Etymology: bilious (nausea) bill, IOU,
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COMMENTS:
love the plastic splurgery - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 12:17:00
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Buygraine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: buy-grain
Sentence: after a hectic week on e-bay i started coming down with a very bad buygraine
Etymology: buy, migraine
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COMMENTS:
Sounds payinfull. Great word! - galwaywegian, 2007-07-04: 05:02:00
Yes, very good. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:03:00
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Goinnustaboutmony
Created by: cassandra1315
Pronunciation: goin-nut-tabou-tmon-y
Sentence: he was goinutaboutmony.
Etymology:
Comments:
Sounds debititating!
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James